Isaiah 49:1-7

Isaiah 49:1-7New International Version (NIV)

The Servant of the Lord

49 Listen to me, you islands;hear this, you distant nations:Before I was born the Lord called me;from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,in the shadow of his hand he hid me;he made me into a polished arrowand concealed me in his quiver.3 He said to me, “You are my servant,Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;I have spent my strength for nothing at all.Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,and my reward is with my God.”

5 And now the Lord says—he who formed me in the womb to be his servantto bring Jacob back to himand gather Israel to himself,for I am[a] honored in the eyes of the Lordand my God has been my strength—6 he says:“It is too small a thing for you to be my servantto restore the tribes of Jacoband bring back those of Israel I have kept.I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

7 This is what the Lord says—the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel—to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,to the servant of rulers:“Kings will see you and stand up,princes will see and bow down,because of the Lord, who is faithful,the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Footnotes:

Isaiah 49:5Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be

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